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Nature Remade Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780226783437, ISBN: HB: 9780226783260, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 tables
"Engineering" has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical a...
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£108,00
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Climate of History in a Planetary Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226732862, ISBN: HB: 9780226100500, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of Th...
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£76,00
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Worst Cases Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226790107, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A...
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Climate in Motion Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale
ISBN: HB: 9780226398822, ISBN: PB: 9780226752334, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 45 halftones
Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary".Climate in Motion" shows that this multiscalar, multicausa...
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Pure Adulteration Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food
ISBN: HB: 9780226377926, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 halftones
In the late nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to t...
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Abundant Earth Toward an Ecological Civilization
ISBN: PB: 9780226596808, ISBN: HB: 9780226596778, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
In "Abundant Earth", Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes – a large and growing h...
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Corridors of Power: Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar
ISBN: HB: 9780300212273, Yale University Press, October 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent m...
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Coevolution of Life on Hosts Integrating Ecology and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226302270, ISBN: HB: 9780226302133, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables
For most, the mere mention of lice forces an immediate hand to the head and recollection of childhood experiences with nits, medicated shampoos, and traumatic haircuts. But for a certain breed of biologist, lice make for fascinating scientific fodder...
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Stitching the West Back Together Conservation of Working Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780226165714, ISBN: HB: 9780226165684, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 5 tables
News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranche...
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£28,00
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£80,00
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Second Growth The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation
ISBN: PB: 9780226118079, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 26 halftones, 31 line drawings, 22 tables
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With "Second Growth", Ro...
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